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By Francesca Trianni and Edith Honan
NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, with his wife by his side, said he is staying in the race after confirming on Tuesday that some newly revealed sexually explicit online chats and photos, published this week by a gossip website, were sent by him.
"I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance," said Weiner at a news conference called after the racy correspondence surfaced.
Weiner, 48, resigned from the U.S. Congress in June 2011 after admitting he used Twitter and other social media to send lewd pictures of himself to women he met online.
Earlier Tuesday, Weiner was vague about the timing and sequence of events, saying in a statement that "some things that have been posted ... are true and some are not."
"I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," he said.
Tuesday's admission concerned a series of suggestive chats published by gossip website TheDirty.com on Monday. The website said it obtained the chats and images from a young woman in her early 20s, whose name it withheld.
The website said chats between the two began in July 2012 and extended into this year.
Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, a close aide for former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, smiled during the press conference and spoke about why she will continue to support him.
"I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as he has said from the beginning, 'We are moving forward,'" Abedin said.
(Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen,; Editing by Barbara Goldberg, Ellen Wulfhorst and Prudence Crowther)
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